Jeremy A. Fielding, P.C.
Overview
Jeremy Fielding is a litigation partner in Kirkland’s Dallas office. He is an experienced trial lawyer, having tried dozens of complex commercial cases in state and federal courts, arbitrations and other evidentiary proceedings across the country. Known for his creativity, relentlessness and extraordinary ability to connect with and persuade a jury, Jeremy has been recognized as one of the top trial lawyers in America and Texas by Chambers & Partners, Super Lawyers, Benchmark Litigation, Best Lawyers in America, Lawdragon and D Magazine. For his innovative approach to jury persuasion, the American Lawyer named him one of their 2022 “Trailblazers.” And Lawdragon selected him as one of its 500 Leading U.S. Energy Lawyers. According to Chambers 2023, clients describe Jeremy as “a phenomenal trial lawyer and counselor” with “a great courtroom presence” and who is “smart and quick and can pick up a complex case in the middle without missing a beat.”
A versatile trial lawyer, Jeremy has successfully represented plaintiffs and defendants in complex, bet-the-company commercial disputes, ranging from complex business and energy litigation to antitrust and product defect matters. He has obtained numerous multimillion-dollar jury verdicts and settlements for plaintiff clients, including a multi-hundred-million-dollar jury verdict in 2014, one of the largest verdicts in the U.S. that year. Several of his trial wins have been highlighted by the American Lawyer in its litigator Wins of the Week column.
Jeremy also has a First Amendment practice, representing companies in challenging commercial marketing regulations and restrictions on free speech grounds. Jeremy has won these cases at both the trial and appellate level, resulting in the invalidation of dozens of such regulations and restrictions across the country. For his pioneering work in this area, the National Law Journal recognized Jeremy as a First Amendment Trailblazer.
Experience
Representative Matters
Plaintiffs
- Obtained a multi-hundred-million-dollar jury verdict for Energy Transfer Partners in a stolen partnership opportunity case. The verdict following a five-week trial was one of the largest in the United States in 2014, and culminated in the largest civil judgment in Dallas County history.
- A $30+ million judgment in favor of his clients following a three-week fraud trial involving the purchase of an oil waste disposal facility.
- Following a two-week jury trial, a $25 million morning-of-closing-argument settlement in favor of his clients in an oil-and-gas partnership dispute.
- An eve-of-trial settlement valued in excess of $90 million in a fraudulent transfer adversary proceeding filed in bankruptcy court against the owners of a defunct real estate development company.
- A $7.3 million judgment in favor of his oil services company client in a breach of contract claim.
- Represented three executives in suits against a former employer involving equity options worth in excess of $60 million. The cases settled before trial for a confidential amount.
- A $10+ million settlement in a theft of trade secrets case involving his steel products distribution company client.
Defendants
- AMLI/BPMT Towne Square Partnership — Trial counsel for AMLI/BPMT Towne Square Partnership and related entities in a multi-million dollar real estate transaction dispute before the 295th District Court of Harris County, Texas. Successfully defeated several claims prior to trial with dispositive motions, secured a favorable, unanimous jury verdict on the remaining claim after a two-week trial and secured a unanimous jury verdict awarding the company its reasonable attorney’s fees incurred in litigating the case.
- Secured a jury verdict in favor of client NextEra Energy after a two-week trial, finding NextEra’s $2 billion Horse Hollow Wind Facility was not a nuisance.
- Obtained a jury finding and judgment in favor of a beverage technology company accused of breach of fiduciary duty, following a two-week trial.
- Won a take-nothing judgment in a two-week arbitration in which Jeremy’s client was accused of fraud in connection with a its sale of a medical imaging business.
- Won a high-profile injunction trial on behalf of real estate development client Red Development involving an adjacent landowner to enjoin the construction of a $300 million mixed use development known as “The Union” in Uptown Dallas.
- Currently, defending a client in a lawsuit alleging product defects and fraud in connection with the sale of a $65M multi-family project.
Clerk & Government Experience
Law ClerkHonorable E. Grady JollyUnited States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Prior Experience
Partner, Lynn Pinker Cox & Hurst LLP, 2005–2019
Attorney, Baker Botts, LLP, 2004–2005
More
Recognition
Recognized as “Lawyers of the Year” in Litigation – First Amendment by The Best Lawyers in America, 2025
Listed as a “Litigation Star” by Benchmark Litigation, 2015–2025
Recognized in Chambers & Partners’ Chambers USA Guide to Leading Lawyers – General Commercial Litigation (Texas), 2022–2024; Litigation: Trial Lawyers (Texas), 2023–2024
Recognized in Energy Litigation: Oil and Gas, The Legal 500 United States, 2022–2024
Recognized as Litigator of the Week runners-up by The American Lawyer Litigation Daily for Harris County jury trial win on behalf of client AMLI/BPMT Towne Square Partnership, 2022
Listed for Southwest Verdicts Hall of Fame by Texas Lawyer, 2021
Recognized in Appellate Practice, The Best Lawyers in America, 2021–2023
Listed as a “Texas Super Lawyer” by Thomson Reuters, 2016–2021
First Amendment Trailblazer, The National Law Journal, 2020
Honored as an “Up-and-Coming” lawyer in Chambers & Partners’ Chambers USA Guide to Leading Lawyers – General Commercial Litigation (Texas), 2017–2019
Recognized by his peers in D Magazine as one of the “Best Lawyers in Dallas,” 2016–2017
Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- Texas
Education
- Harvard Law SchoolJ.D.2003Executive Editor, The Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy
- Brigham Young UniversityB.A.2000